page_title: Art of Illusion
section_title: Cloth Simulation
hierarchical_section_title: Art of Illusion / Features / Feature-extensions / Cloth Simulation
caption_attribution_description: Screenshot of Art of Illusion's procedural texture editor by Marc Carson.
context_page_description: Art of Illusion is a free software, and open source software package for making 3D graphics.
  It provides tools for 3D modeling, texture mapping, and 3D rendering still images and animations. Art of Illusion can also export models for 3D printing in the STL file format.
context_section_description: A cloth simulator does not come with the basic install package but the capability is available as a plugin. The second edition of Extending Art of Illusion includes the ClothMaker plugin as one of the examples in the book. The author classifies the cloth simulator as "beta" and describes a number of problems with the tool. The ClothMaker plugin makes use of the Distortion class. The user selects an object in the scene to convert to a cloth. The user then selects the command to tell Art of Illusion to generate the cloth simulation. An editor window is provided for the user to select various settings. When the user selects ok the tool spends several minutes generating many frames of the simulation. Once the window closes the user can play simulation using the animation score.
caption: Procedural editor UI for 2D-textures.
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